00:00When we arrive there, don't spare an elderly, don't spare a chicken, don't spare a house or anything.
00:05These are the words of General Johnson Ohlone during the deployment of his troop in Zhongli State.
00:10According to our colleagues from Radio Tamazouj, his troops are being deployed.
00:15To stop the advance of rebel groups loyal to Reik Machar, the former...
00:20Vice President and Leader of the Opposition is currently being held in Juba, the capital.
00:25He was accused of being behind attacks on the South Sudanese military in 2025.
00:30The trial, which the opposition are seeing as a legal assault on the...
00:35Leader, it's sort of like the symbolic rallying point.
00:40For them, but also there are other factors, including government has been actually...
00:45fighting with the opposition in Upper Nile, bombarding them from the air and those...
00:50Some of the areas were actually bombed before the forces merged out.
00:55They were able to take garrison towns in northern Zhongli.
00:58Large-scale fighting is...
01:00This is imminent.
01:01On Sunday, the South Sudanese army gave 48 hours to civilians.
01:05To escape from three different counties and even ordered NGOs to withdraw.
01:10I can tell you that in South Sudan, many people are bracing for the worst.
01:14The impact is going to be...
01:15Immersive.
01:16This is not exactly a replication of the 2013 civil war.
01:20The war we are seeing now, it's pretty decentralized.
01:25The leader of the opposition is just a symbolic leader as we speak.
01:30He's incommunicado.
01:31He's been under house arrest.
01:33He's undergoing trial in general.
01:35So he cannot even communicate with the commanders and yet this...
01:40the commanders at the grassroots are the ones mobilizing and they are coordinating.
01:45Since the beginning of the year, 180,000 people have been displaced because of the...
01:50conflict.
01:51More than a decade after its independence, South Sudan is still struggling.
01:55To achieve peace.
01:56Between 2013 and 2018, almost 400,000 people...
02:00died during the civil war.
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